POETRY SUMMER SCHOOL
for children in Years 5 & 6
Mon 15th - Fri 19th August, 10.00 - 12.30 at Wenlock Books
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| Baby News first!... |
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Abbie is now one year old - how time flies! And dear little Sid is 9 months. Both babies are fabulous fun and have brought such great joy into my life.
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| World Book Day... |
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World Book Day vouchers can be used here until the end of March.
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| World Book Night |
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Despite ambivalence about giving away books to the tune of £9 million market value, I am nevertheless being a good sport and joining in! Six book lovers have had their boxes of free books delivered to the shop and we had a publicity shoot on Saturday March 5th, including an appearance from our local MP, Philip Dunne. One of our givers is off to London next week to give her copies of All Quiet on the Western Front to members of the House of Commons – what a good idea! On a less ambitious scale, I shall be giving The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy to parents at our local pre-school - my thinking being that parents of young children don't get much 'me time' but a poem is just about do-able!
Find out more at worldbooknight.org
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| Wenlock Browsers |
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Let me invite you to the bookshop! If you are too busy to get to the shop during our usual opening hours, then you'll like this. Starting on 3rd March (for a trial period of one month) I am opening until 7pm every Thursday evening. Call in on your way home from work for a complimentary glass of wine, and browse the bookshelves! You can look at books, talk about books, get personal recommendations from me, and talk to other people about what you've been reading. It will be very informal, very relaxed, and deliciously bookish! Do come! No charge, all welcome.
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| The Morville Year... |
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Katherine Swift's eagerly awaited second volume in her Morville trilogy, The Morville Year, was launched on March 4th at Morville Hall, by kind invitation of Dr And Mrs Douglas.
More on the blog (photos coming soon).
Katherine will be in the shop on Saturday March 12th from 3pm for tea, cake and signing!
We will also be taking our usual stand at the Morville Flower Festival over the Spring Bank Holiday week-end, where you will also be able to buy the book and if you're lucky get Katherine to sign it! The Morville Hours remains my best-selling book ever, outnumbering Harry Potter by hundreds!
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| The Yellow Book... |
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...is now in stock – I do hope you like my spring-time window! I always think The Yellow Book is the first sign of spring, and indeed I must say it seems to have brought the spring sunshine with it. I stop at Shipton Church on my way into work to do my annual walk around the church-yard admiring the snowdrops and aconites - they really do seem to be more beautiful every year.
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| Wenlock Book Tokens... |
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...are now available: with a lovely photo of the bookshop on the front, and room for your name on the back, they are a great alternative to the plastic national gift card which so many of us don't like! You can put any value you like onto the card, they come in a little envelope, and are credit card sized so will fit into a wallet or purse. I think they are great, and hope you will too!
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| Special Events |
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Two great events to look forward to!
On May 20th, Isabel Losada will present Life, Happiness and The Battersea Park Road to Paradise (yes, really!) at Wenlock Pottery. There will be complimentary bottles of wine, tasty Indian nibbles, cabaret-style seating and a relaxed, funny, inspiring and off-the-wall evening for you! Come with your friends for a Friday night with a difference. Tickets from the bookshop.
And an absolute sneak preview! The Poozies will be in Much Wenlock's priory Hall on Thursday October 6th - more details and ticket info to follow but put this in your diary NOW (or pre-book!). This is the group that Kate Rusby cut her teeth with - and the group's founder members Sally, Mary and Patsy will all be here. I still can't quite believe it!
This will be a benefit in aid of Friends of Conakry Refugee School
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| Dates for your Diary |
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Reading for Pleasure
will meet on Monday March 21st from 10.30 - 12 o'clock to discuss The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Georgio Bassini. Numbers are limited but do let me know if you are interested in joining us at this new time.
Children's Poetry Club every term-time Tuesday from 4.30 - 5.30pm.
Junior Children's Reading Group 4.30 - 5.30pm on the first Friday of each month.
Senior Children's Reading Group meets on the third Friday of the month, 5 - 6pm.
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| Campaign For Real Books |
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The Campaign For Real Books was established last November to preserve and promote real books and the independent bookshops that sell them. Well over 100,000 British jobs depend on printed books and bookshops are the most visible aspect of this industry. CAMBO wants to keep all of these jobs alive by making sure that paper books are never seen as second-rate to screens.
They are not fighting progress - they are fighting the marketing strategy of multi-national electronics companies, and that is a fight we can win.
Will you join in? Membership is £15 per annum, but as well as knowing that you are fighting to preserve the printed book (and bookshops) you will receive a card you can use to get 10% discount from participating booksellers, and here in Shropshire both Burway Books in Church Stretton and I (Wenlock Books) are signed up members so you will get your 10% off every time you shop with either one of us!
Today it's the libraries, and if we all do nothing it will be bookshops tomorrow. Together we can make a difference. Hurrah for the fighting spirit!
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With very best wishes,
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